{"id":12563,"date":"2018-08-28T12:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T07:19:36","slug":"iram-first-lady-from-kashmir-capital-srinagar-to-fly-an-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=12563","title":{"rendered":"Iram, first lady from Kashmir capital Srinagar to fly an aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/i><i> When Iram Habib, who belongs to old Srinagar city, expressed her wish to join the aviation sector after Class XII, she met with a lot of discouragement. She was told that a Kashmiri girl can never become a pilot.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>It took her six years to convince her parents to allow her to join the aviation sector as they thought commercial flying wasn\u2019t meant for women living in the conflict-torn Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Iram pursued her bachelors in forestry from Dehradun and postgraduation in forestry from the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir. Though she studied forestry, she did not let her dream die.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cSomehow, the dream to fly an aircraft was in me all through while I studied forestry,\u201d says Iram (30), the daughter of a businessman.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>While Iram\u2019s family wanted her to pursue PhD in forestry and get a government job, she kept looking for options to train as a pilot.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cI pursued PhD for one and a half years but left it and went to a US flight school,\u201d she says. \u201cI looked for things on my own and kept my dream alive.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Iram completed her training from Miami in the US in 2016 and returned to India to get a commercial pilot licence, but the journey was not easy.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cI had to study hard and pass exams. In the US, I had 260 hours of flying experience which is important for the licence. I got a commercial pilot licence in the US and Canada on the basis of my flying hours but I wanted to work in India,\u201d she says.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>She says though her father supported her, her relatives and friends would always tell her that a girl from Kashmir would never get a job as a pilot.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Iram says that it is difficult for her relatives even now to believe that she flies an aircraft. \u201cThey still can\u2019t believe I chose this profession and got a job too,\u201d Iram says, adding she had also trained in Bahrain and Dubai in Airbus 320.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The 30-year-old has two job offers in India at the moment.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>\u201cDuring my training and exams everyone would be surprised to see a woman from Kashmir as a pilot, but there was no discrimination. I worked hard and got a job offer from IndiGo and GoAir. I am set to join as a first officer in IndiGo next month,\u201d says Iram.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Not an easy journey<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Iram Habib, 30, who belongs to old Srinagar city, had expressed her wish to join the aviation sector after Class XII, but met with a lot of discouragement<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Iram completed her flight training from Miami in the US in 2016 and returned to India to get a commercial pilot licence, but the journey was not easy<\/i><br \/>\n<i>She has got a job offer from IndiGo and GoAir<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Reported The Tribune <\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: When Iram Habib, who belongs to old Srinagar city, expressed her wish to join the aviation sector after Class XII, she met with a lot of discouragement. She was told that a Kashmiri girl can never become a pilot. It took her six years to convince her parents to allow her to join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}